Hey all, I'm having a big problem with grains... I was able to obtain sprouted buckwheat and quinoa from a health-food store, and I assumed I could roast it and brew with it. So I followed the PDF guides posted up here a while ago, and everything seemed to be working (except my sparge is stuck hard). I just finished mashing according to the PDF as well, and I just checked it and got a gravity of 0, and didn't taste sweet. I did only use 3-4lbs of grains (some roasted to chocolate malt/40 srm, some vienna), but 0.000?!
This is the process i followed. The mash was kinda crazy, there were 2 20m rests at 40C and 55C. Also it said to mash first for a bit, skim off some of the top and save, then boil the grains to gelatinize them, then cool it and add back the saved stuff... oh one thing I screwed up was, I forgot to filter the chlorine out of the water first... But I did add a mash ph adjuster (5).
At this point I threw in 2 tsp's of amylase enzyme and I'm going to try mashing again... is this gonna work? Does anyone have an idea as to why the conversion didn't work? Quinoa and buckwheat contain enzymes right? Are the producers treating the grains in a way that might destroy the enzymes or am I missing something?
Man, before I was having difficulty finding grains that would sprout, now this...
This is the process i followed. The mash was kinda crazy, there were 2 20m rests at 40C and 55C. Also it said to mash first for a bit, skim off some of the top and save, then boil the grains to gelatinize them, then cool it and add back the saved stuff... oh one thing I screwed up was, I forgot to filter the chlorine out of the water first... But I did add a mash ph adjuster (5).
At this point I threw in 2 tsp's of amylase enzyme and I'm going to try mashing again... is this gonna work? Does anyone have an idea as to why the conversion didn't work? Quinoa and buckwheat contain enzymes right? Are the producers treating the grains in a way that might destroy the enzymes or am I missing something?
Man, before I was having difficulty finding grains that would sprout, now this...